The Kellys and the O'Kellys

ns for the settlement of Anty Lynch's property, respecting which he and Lord Ballindine had been together to the lawyer's in Clare

tertain no such vain dream. The vis inerti? [16] of patient endurance, is the only weapon of any use in attempting to overcome the lengthened ennui of this most tedious transit. Reading is out of the question. I have tried it myself, and seen others try it, but in vain. The sense of the motion, almost imperceptible, but still perceptible; the noises above you; the smells around you; the diversified crowd, of which you are a part; at one moment the heat this crowd creates; at the next, the draught which a window just opened behind your ears lets in on you; the fumes of punch; the snores of the man u

run through the

rtunity of employment. I believe the misery of the canal-boat chiefly consists in a pre-conceived and erroneous idea of its capabilities. One prepares oneself for occupation-an attempt is made to achieve act

ed with the dura ilia messorum [18], swallowed huge collops [19] of the raw animal, and vast heaps of yellow turnips, till the pity with which a stranger would at first be inclined to contemplate the consumer of such unsavoury food, is transferred to the victim who has to

ter he had left Dublin, in a flourishing condition. From thence he travelled, by Bianconi's car, as fa

, to Tuam [20], and that probably that gentleman would not object to join him, Martin, in the conveyance. Martin, thinking it preferable to pay fourpence rather than sixpence a mile for his jaunt, acquiesced in this arrangement, and, as he ha

also throwing a somewhat diminutive carpet-bag into the same well, placed himself alongside of ou

-though not with the expressed purpose, of opposing each other-that Daly was to be employed to suggest any legal means for robbing Martin of a wife, and Anty of her property; and that

y expressed his assurance that no jury could convict the saviours of their country, and Daly had given utterance to his legal opinion

a client there now-a thing I never had in

the inn, then, I

s one of the right sort, that can feed as well as fee a lawyer

there weren't when I left it, a week since. Whose house a

y Lyn

you are! I wonder what's in the wind with him

you may be sure. But a man that's just come to his property always wants a

ouldn't pull well together. Barry's always been a dale too high for me, since he was at school with the young lord. Well, good evening, Mr Daly

t have some reference to Anty and himself, and this made him rather uncomfortable. Could Barry have heard of his engagement? Had Anty repented of her bargain, during his short absence? Had that old reptile Moylan, played him false,

one day rout from the place, and, in her charity, feed the next, had seen Martin coming down the street, and had given intelligence in the kitchen. As he walked in, therefo

oat to Sally, "for heaven's sake get me something t

news thin," said one, "a

when I've got my dinner. How's the ould lady?" an

id Meg; "don't be in a hurr

re? is it

is, and it is

afther the young la

ple in both the rooms? Come, girls, av' ye've anything to tell, why don't you

I'll tell you. Anty

she is! And what brought her here? Did she qu

id, out and o

her horribl

by and by," said Meg. "Come

other know

! She fetched her down from the h

t his first impulse, on hearing of her being in the house, had been to throw himself at her feet, it would have been well that this conversation should have been carried on out of

cing the interview; he looked round to his sisters, and made a sign to them to come in with him, and

; "seeing you here is what I didn't expe

ery good of your mother, fetching me. She'

and the ould lady pull so well toge

but the night before last he got drinking, and then he was very bad to me, and tried to

d that Martin would fancy she had run after him, and she therefore thought it as well to tell him that it was only a temporar

alk, Anty! Why, Martin, he was like to murdher her!-he raised his fist to her, and knocked her do

terrupting her, and blushing. "I'll not stop in the roo

dhrunk again, Ant

ay, and could not bear the idea of Anty's even thinking of being reconciled to her brother. "Won't he be always dhrunk now?" she continued; "and ain't we all frinds here? and why shouldn't you let me tell Martin all? Afther all's said and done, isn't he the b

re Meg's appeal; "but your mother knows what's best for me, and I'll do wha

h Martin because you're frin

nty's not going to quarrel wit

to quarrel? I'm shure, Anty, you and I won't; but, whatever it is Barry did to you, I hope y

nocked her dow

t be very hungry, afther his ride-and won't you see your mother

went to get something for their brother to eat, and he descende

that "gander's job". She then proceeded to point out all the difficulties which lay in the way of a marriage between him, Martin, and her, Anty; and showed how mad it was for either of them to think about it. From that, she got into a narrative of Barry's conduct, and Anty's sufferings, neither of which lost anything in the telling; and having by this time gossiped herself into a good humour, she proceeded to show how, through her means and assistance, the marriage might take place if he was still bent upon

r sisthers-for Heaven knew they war like to be bad enough off, for all she'd be able to do for them!" From this she got to Martin's own future mode of life, suggesting a "small snug cottage on the farm, just big enough for them two, and, may-be, a slip of a girl servant, and not to be taring and tatthering away, as av' money had no eend; and, afther all," she added, "there war nothing like industhry; and who know'd whether

not go so far as to acquiesce in the very small cottage; and he moreover expressed his thorough confidence that he would neither

or him; and then they parted, she to her shop, and he to his dinner: not however, before he had promised her to give up a

d less in getting them to take a second, and, before they went to bed, he and Anty were again intimate. And, as he was sitting next her for a couple of hours on the little s